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Yang Style
The Yang style of Tai Chi Chuan is the most
popular and well known of the styles in existence today. It originated with
Yang Lu Chan in the early 19th century but was popularised by
Yang Chen-fu towards the start of the 20th century. Popularity
of the style in the west is largely due to one Cheng Man-Ch’ing, a
student of Yang Chen-fu’s school. What is not so well appreciated is
that Cheng Man-Ch’ing was only an outside student who spent less than
a year with Yang Chen-fu before travelling to the United States. While his form
is derived from Yang Chen-fu’s simplified beginner’s form, it
has little of the full Yang system. Others still have “learnt”
Tai chi from videos etc. and often what they purport to be Yang style Tai
Chi is nothing of the sort. (Wang Xiangzhai, well
aware that there was little understanding of Tai Chi Chuan outside the Yang
family, considered later 'developments'
as an abuse of the original art - losing the original essence in an attempt
to popularize the art. In the 1940s, he described such developments as
hollow and representing the real art in name only. This view was, and still
is, shared by others.)
Like the Chen style of Tai Chi, Yang is
characterised by stable steady stances and balances the hard and the soft,
the fast and the slow. It employs fewer low stances and maintains a flow in
graceful movements that is readily apparent when practised slowly. Yet  the early art was
brutal with early Yang masters putting their skill to the test in matches that
often ended with the opponent seriously injured for life. No longer is
there room for superfluous gestures in a trial that risks life or death.
Excellence through brutal training methods came to be replaced by supreme
efficacy through dedicated study and practise. Yang
Cheng-fu had
precise control and, without causing unnecessary harm could make his
'opponent' feel helpless and therefore aware of what he was up against.
The White Dragon Association teaches traditional Yang style Tai Chi starting
with short training forms introduced by the family towards the end of the 19th century before progressing to earlier martial forms
including weapon sets. (This begins
with the short beginners form as taught to Cheng Man-Ch’ing.) The
syllabus for students studying Yang style is given below.
Like all Tai Chi Chuan styles, the Yang system integrates martial arts,
physical health and spiritual development, laying special emphasis on the
cultivation of internal energy, or 'Chi'. The
slow graceful movements develop balance, co-ordination and a mind that is
calm, yet alert. The gentleness of the movements means that Yang style Tai
Chi can be practised by everyone, including the old and the weak.
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Yang
Style Tai Chi Chuan Syllabus:
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Beginners’ Syllabus (Outdoor Students)
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Cheng Man-Ch’ing Form
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Chih Family
Yang Tai Chi Chuan (protected)
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Wu Yang
(Hsu Family) Short Form (protected)
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(all forms
both left and right hand)
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Pushing
Hands
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Double
Pushing Hands
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Acupressure
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Tai Chi Chi
Kung
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Intermediate Syllabus (Indoor Students)
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Yang Family
Long Form (standard)
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Fast Tai
Chi Form (protected)
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Hsu Family
Wu Yang Form (protected)
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Tai Chi
Broadsword Short Form (protected)
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Tai Chi
Long Sword Short Form (protected)
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Tai Chi Staff
Short Form (protected)
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Tai Chi
Spear Short Form (protected)
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Tai Chi
Long Knife Short Form (protected)
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Deflecting
Hands, One-Step Pushing Hands
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Acupressure
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Goose Wing
Chi Kung
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Tai Chi
Theory: Eight Gates System
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(Four Directions)
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Peng (Ward
Off), Lu (Rollback),
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Chi
(Press), An (Push)
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(Four Corners)
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Chou
(Elbow), Lieh (Split),
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Tsai
(Pull-down), Kao (Shoulder Strike)
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Advanced Syllabus (Closed Door Students)
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Chih Family Yang Long Form (protected)
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Wu Yang Long Form (Wu Chin Chuan)
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Yang Original Long Form (restricted)
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Tai Chi
Broadsword Long Form (protected)
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Tai Chi
Long Sword Long Form (protected)
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Tai Chi
Staff Long Form (protected)
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Tai Chi Spear
Long form (protected)
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Tai Chi
Long Knife Long Form (protected)
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Da Lu Forms
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Chinese
Herbal Medicine
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Acupressure,
Tuei Na
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Tai Chi
Theory: Five Thoughts
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Shen Lin
(Agility)
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Chi Lian
(Gathering)
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Chin Cheng
(Concentration)
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Shen Chu
(Development)
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Hsin Ching
(Tranquil Mind)
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"The softest things in the world
overcome the hardest. Non-being penetrates even where there is no space.
Through this I know the value of non-action. Teaching without words and the
value of non-action
are understood by few in the
world." - Lao zu
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